Celebrate!!

Repetition is a pretty obvious way to emphasize something. Today God repeated, pretty explicitly, that we as a body need to celebrate His goodness, for His sake and our own.

If you didn't know I volunteer in the high school group at OCEC, and over the last couple weeks Erin has been going over Holy Habits...spiritual disciplines that we can incorporate into our daily lives to draw our energy, thoughts, and actions towards God. Today's Holy Habit was Celebration: Openly enjoying God, and His goodness to us. Erin started by playing the "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang and we as a youth group proceeded to 'get down'. Then we went on to look at some good examples of celebration in scripture:

-Moses, Miriam and their songs/tambourine dancing in Exodus 15 after God's rescue of Israel's from Egypt.
-Deborah and Barak's song in Judges 5 after God's defeat of Canaan.
-David and Israel's rejoicing/dancing in 2 Samuel 6 after God's return of the Ark to Jerusalem.
-Jesus first miracle of making water into wine at the wedding in Cana as recorded in John 2.

The next urge to celebrate came from Andrew and the rest of the worship band today as we began with the song "We're going to sing like the saved". YOu can't help but enjoy God's goodness to you when you are singing that song and then screaming at the top of your lungs! It was amazing to be reminded of the spiritual discpline of celebration at the perfect time, and then to be able to practice it.

So did you get any reminders from God to celebrate today? How do you think the the Inn could better pracitice this dsicipline? What are you gonna do because of God and his goodness to you?!

-John Lusser